The state permitted 9,834 homes in 2025. Strip out the houses and 79 percent of the permits were in multi-unit buildings. Give every small building an owner and the rental share is still 77 percent. The hearing number everyone quotes misses most of the shortage. Connecticut has figured out how to build. Nearly four of
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Most families in Connecticut carry the state’s economic history inside their own. A grandfather who worked the line at a brass mill.A grandmother who stitched hats or inspected parts.A mother who built a career at Sikorsky Aircraft — not as a symbol, but as a steady paycheck that paid the mortgage, funded college, and anchored
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A Recession Doesn’t Mean a Housing Crisis. There’s a growing concern about the possibility of a recession. Whether you’ve seen headlines from major financial news sources or heard economic chatter around the office, the fear is understandable. After all, the word recession often brings back memories of the 2008 housing crash—a time of declining home
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From Crisis to Opportunity: Solving Homelessness with Scalable, Ethical Housing The Scope of the Homelessness Crisis Homelessness remains a persistent humanitarian crisis on a global scale. An estimated 150 million people worldwide are homeless, and as many as 1.6 billion lack adequate housing homelessnomore.com. This crisis spans both developing and developed nations, manifesting in various
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Housing as a Human Right vs. Housing as an Investment Asset Introduction Housing is more than just a roof over one’s head – it sits at the intersection of basic human need and economic commodity. International law enshrines adequate housing as a fundamental human right, as first proclaimed in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human
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Executive Summary We Analysed the Last 100 Years of Housing and Compared it to the State of Connecticut’s 2025-29 Consolidated Plan for Housing and Community Development. Why This Report Matters:This report tells the story of housing in Connecticut over the last 100 years — what worked, what didn’t, and how we got to a place
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